The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-04-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
THAN IN GENEROUS
NORTH CAROLINA.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF
ELSEWHERE THAN GENEROUS
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Cream OF the News Of the Week
Readers who Don't Take Daily.
Thursday, March 3I.t.
| Mrs. James Potter Brown, of New York,
made her debut in London in .sMan and
| Wife" The Prince of Wales and others
of the nobility were present and applaud
ed. The critics are not enthusiastic in
their praise and some of them SAY that
she will do as an amateur, but can never
reach up to the success Of professional.
1t was Mrs. Brown who first read, Ostler
Joe to Washington audience. No lady
could read that poem without feeling the
warm blood rush to her face She had
better go back home to her husband and
babies Another unsuccessful attempt
was made on the Cars life. ''I'd rather
be dog and bay at the moon than" to
be Car of all the RIssias New York
papers are full of the graceful way in
which Sarah Bernhardt threw flowers
| at Fanny Davenport, when the latter play
ed Fedora. No doubt Sarah was wishing
Fanny would fail, but at the same was
smiling many encouraging deceitful smiles
Sarah is bad and wicked woman but as
smart one as ever tripped on the stage
Tammany denounced the high license
and coercion in Ireland.
Friday. April LIST.
On this All FOOLS Day, the small boys
kicked up no racket that produced dis
aSter. The S. B. must be getting pious
Chas. s. Fairchild has been appointed
Secretary of the Treasury; Isaac H. May
nard. of New York. assistant secretary.
49,. The steamer Eagle. with $50 men
on board. wrecked by explosion of boiler,
near Funk Island. The poet John g.
SAKE is dead. Sam Jones is going to
London. =. Austria has at last concluded
to make amends. 1t has sent Minister
to Washlngton-Baron Tavara
Saturday, April 2nd.
Lewis Stewart, col, was hanged at Lau-
rens, s. c., for the murder of his wife
Cincinnati newspapers have discontinued
the publication of railroad time tables on
account of the stoppage of free passes
NJ. V. Montgomery has been appointed
Associate Justice O.: the Supreme Court Of
the District of Columbia. Business fail
ures in the United States the past week
number 1856
Sunday, A pril 3rd.
Rev. Dr. Ray Palmer, the poet, is dead
in New York. He was an eminent Cong
regationalst and wrote the well known
hymn, MY Faith Looks up to Thee"
W. A. Clarke, postoffice clerk arrested
i'll New York for stealing $40, 600 in reg
istereG package, has confessed to other
robberies. .. The hotel Del Monte, at
Monterey, Cal, has been destroyed by
fire; it cost $3.50. 600 and was not insured
-. Retail liquor dealers are flying from
Providence, K. L., to avoid arrest; several
who have been arrested were sentenced TO
30 days imprisonment and 800 fine
Two freight trains on the Michigan Cen
trail Railroad, wrecked near Springfield,
Ont; two brakemen were killed The
earth opened at Poela, on the Adriatic, in
Austria, and swallowed Roman amphi-
theatre; vapors are emitted from the
chasm which formed. The cotton crop
in sight is 6,O09, ,224 bales.
Monday. April 4th.
1t is reported in Washington, b. c.,
that two famous military companies from
Montgomery, Ala, will not attend the
May National Drill because colored troops
are to participate. What will the North
Carolina boys dO2. u. Ex- Cashier Balm has
been bailed in the sum of $50, 900 for his
appearance at the May term of the Circuit
court at Norfolk, when all the Exchange
B INK cases come again for trial . . Herr
Most is out of Jail Mayor Hewitt
reaches no limit to his popularity He
appoints a newspaper reporter I" ? l,500
always with him. =. In New York the
knights of Labor recommended MIR. J. A.
Buckbee for place on the Railroad Com
mission, and Gov, Hill appointed him.
Gov. Hill also appointed Mr.. W. A. Arm
strong, who is President of the State
Grange, member of the Commission.
Tuesday, April 5th.
All the carpenters in Chicago and Gin
cinnati are on a strike. A fire broke out
III block of buildings in Washington, d.
G. yesterday, about which there had been
a lawsuit for twelve years, and at the very
time final decision was being rendered
in the U. S. Court adverse to the owner.
The funeral of the late Gen. Ripley
took place in Charleston, :. c., Sunday.
IL. H. George, wealthy merchant of
Charlottesville, Va, committed suicide.
-. Rumor indicates that Rev. DR.. John
r. Paxton will be chosen to succeed
Beecher AS pastor of Plymouth Church
1t is announced that Mr.. Gladstone will
accept the invitation to attend the cele-
bration of the adoption of the Federal
Constitution. 1t will be held in Philadel-
phia in September, and if this greatest of
great Englishmen comes to join with us in
the celebration, all America will give him
the heartiest welcome.
Wednesday, April 9th.
The Virginia General Assembly takes a
recess until May 9Th; the Senate passed
resolutions of sympathy for Ireland.
The election of the Republican ticket over
:hat of the Labor and Socialists party, in
Chicago, ILL.,, is claimed by 30, 900 major
ity; it is doubtful whether the Labor party
will elect more than two aldermen. ;. W.
A. Clark, the postal clerk at Now York
city, who confessed to the theft of $50, 900,
has skipped to Canada. Five negro muir
derers were taken from Jail at Yorkville,
s. c., and hanged by mob :. Reports
from Michigan and Washington report a
blizzard raging .. Aiken, S. c., is said to
be- Overrun with visitors The truck far
mers around Charleston are practically
ruined The cold weather has killed, or
nearly so, most of their products The
| Grant monument fund, after more than
eighteen months is only $125, S45. IS il.
| AS an evidence Of the feeling over the CO.
| ercion bill, a meeting of delegates was held
| at Rhondda, Wales, representing $4,000
Welsh miners, in which they expressed
| the feeling Of their constituents against
| coercion in Ireland. Speeches were made
denouncing the governments criminal
| amendment bill, declaring it TO be an out
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